Dataset Description The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) is a globally complete inventory of glacier outlines (excluding the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica). It is a subset of the database compiled by the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) initiative. While G…
World Glaciers Explorer The world glacier explorer is an interactive web application with which you can learn (and teach) about the world’s glaciers, their location, their climate, and the ice they store. By “glaciers”, we mean all glaciers outside of the two continental ice shee…
…ant impact on the downstream water availability. In this study, the Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM) and the Glacio-hydrological Degree-day Model (GDM) are integrated to project the response of cryospheric and hydrological systems to climate change until 2100. The study area comp…
Glacier County is home to about half of Glacier National Park, and most of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation , though Cut Bank is not on the reservation. Once the "Oil Capital of Montana," oil production has diminished and Cut Bank is now a regional service center for Blackfeet Re…
…ern Alps and the Tasman Sea. Its scenery and natural attractions, which include glaciers that flow down relatively close to sea level, mountains, forests, and the sea-sculpted Pancake Rocks have featured in many travel writers bucket lists. Uncrowded, the region has a population …
…easonal evolution of subglacial drainage and acceleration in a Greenland outlet glacier. Nature Geosci. 3 , 408–411 (2010) Article ADS CAS Google Scholar Parizek, B. R. & Alley, R. B. Implications of increased Greenland surface melt under global-warming scenarios: ice-sheet simul…
…ace and the Wild West , reviewed by Polly E. Bugros McLean On the cover (front) Glacier Lilies , by Mary Vaux Walcott, 1899; (back) 1913 Women’s Suffrage Procession program Spring 2021 Vol. 71, No. 1 Selections from A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts & Essays from the…
…hancing quality of life in mountainous regions Tajikistan International Year of Glacier Preservation Kyrgyzstan Midpoint of Kyrgyzstan’s "Five Years of Action for Mountain Development" A Landmark Year for Mountain Sustainability 2025 is a pivotal moment for Central Asia’s mountai…
Glacier Tourism in a Changing Climate: Balancing Conservation and Community Development | United Nations University This policy brief explores the interconnected impacts of climate change and tourism on glaciers and their surrounding ecosystems and communities. It identifies prac…
…Morlighem, M. & Khazendar, A. Grounding line retreat of Pope, Smith, and Kohler Glaciers, West Antarctica, measured with Sentinel-1a radar interferometry data. Geophys. Res. Lett. 43 , 8572–8579 (2016). Google Scholar Konrad, H. et al. Uneven onset and pace of ice-dynamical imbal…
…den, A., Bueler, E., Khroulev, C., and Blatter, H.: An enthalpy formulation for glaciers and ice sheets, J. Glaciol., 58, 441–457, https://doi.org/10.3189/2012JoG11J088 , 2012. Bakker, A. M. R., Wong, T. E., Ruckert, K. L., and Keller, K.: Sea-level projections representing the d…
…den, A., Bueler, E., Khroulev, C., and Blatter, H.: An enthalpy formulation for glaciers and ice sheets, J. Glaciol., 58, 441–457, https://doi.org/10.3189/2012JoG11J088 , 2012. Bakker, A. M. R., Wong, T. E., Ruckert, K. L., and Keller, K.: Sea-level projections representing the d…
…den, A., Bueler, E., Khroulev, C., and Blatter, H.: An enthalpy formulation for glaciers and ice sheets, J. Glaciol., 58, 441–457, https://doi.org/10.3189/2012JoG11J088 , 2012. Bakker, A. M. R., Wong, T. E., Ruckert, K. L., and Keller, K.: Sea-level projections representing the d…
…y local groups were engaged in conflicts which the Incas could exploit; the ... Glacier Retreat: Reviewing the Limits of Human Adaptation to Climate Change Environment , May 1, 2009 (From the introduction) More than many other consequences of climate change, glacier retreat also.…
… fusion or melting, evaporation) which remove snow or ice from the surface of a glacier or from a snow-field; also used to express the quantity lost by these processes (2) reduction of the water equivalent of a snow cover by melting, evaporation, wind and avalanches. the area of …